Divorce and Its Rate: Literature Review

Brian, (2011) stated “Separation is linked with highly increased risk of so many psychological and social problems throughout the life span of a person. While experiencing the parental separation most of the family members specially children got rough reactions towards divorce during the process but once it’s done than gradually they learn to deal with it. It appears things seems worst unless they happen.”

Cherlin, AJ, 1992. The study investigated the psychological effects of divorce on women. A study found out that divorced couples by one way or the other come across some levels of psychological stress including emotional breakdown as compared to married couples. Divorced women still have mixed feelings of sorrow and regret because they think they could have done something to make the marriage work. Whether they were guilty in attaining the divorce still they are of the view that if they had given some thoughts things would be different as they are now.

Divorce women and men who have guilt feeling about their marriage have psychological effects, it was realized that 16% (8) of the respondents strongly agreed that they felt guilty for their failed marriage, 46% (23) of the respondents agree that guilt has psychological problems, 30% (15) of the respondents were uncertain about this issue, 8% (4) of the respondents disagreed that guilt has psychological problems. The study found that divorcees who have the guilt feeling toward their failed marriage have major psychological problems, majority of the respondents agreed to this statement.

Gallup survey of Pakistan reported in their survey that nearly half of all Pakistanis (48%) believe that the rate of divorce has increased in past years, 32% were of the view that there has been no notable change in divorce ratio for the last few years, whereas 19% claim it has decreased by one way or the other. The various factors that were causing an increase in divorce rate were as follows, the absence of patience in the couples was the main factor with the percentage of 48, after that the influence of social media in the daily life was witnessed by 33% causing it the second highest factor, impact of western culture were found in 27% of the related population, career oriented women were there at the ratio of 12%, and men’s lack of affection towards their current partners. Significantly, after 2002 when the Muslim Family Courts Amendment Ordinance (that a move for khula be finalized if reconciliation fails and should be done so within six months), was effected, female initiated divorce raised by almost 50 percent the following year. Male divorces also raised by 40 percent. There are so many changing reasons and perceptions are adding in the dissolution of marriage nowadays.

Shankar Vedantam, 2011. Main focus of the study was to investigate the changing perceptions and factors of divorce in today’s society and to find out the psychological impacts on women and their strategy of tackling problems and how they adjust themselves in society as a normal person. It was intended to see that whether they are supported by their families and society after divorce or not.

Panse, 2007. Communication gap is the major cause of divorce. A marriage can be ended when the communication between the two people fails. Couples can’t have an effective relationship if they won’t discuss what they are feeling about each other, can’t talk about their issues which can be personal or mutual both, hide their small matters with each other and expect partner to guess what the whole problem is about.

Khan,2007. In Islam, a major religion followed by Muslim community in the country, if men have power to divorce his wife then women also have the equal right to get divorce. A divorce filed by wife against her husband is known as khula. It means to take off. In the light of Islam it is consisted in dissolving the ownership of marriage, with the consent and acceptance of the wife by the use of the word khula’

Jallendhary,2001. Our religion tells us about the importance of marriage and its dissolution, unluckily our society has deprived its real meanings and like other matters divorce is also used for their own purposes. Allah never liked divorce, says the Quran. According to Islam, Divorce is not an act of taking revenge from other person or showing personal hatred for one another that unfortunately it has become in our society today. The after effects of divorce especially on women are more crucial as compared to men. Most of the time when divorce happen it is considered woman’s fault and not only in east but even in the west mainly the woman is held responsible for the failure of a marriage. The social stigma of being a divorcee impacts women in all the phases of life, making it and continuous struggle for women to lead a dignified life of honor.

Kumar, 2006. “Divorce brings both case scenarios for the divorced people. At one hand it is very relieving for one party but on the other hand it gets very personal for the other party specially the anxiety given by the society. It could be a male as well as females but most chances are for the females. During his research 36 percent of the females were reported physically ill after their divorce. Study showed common diseases to the severe one were resulted among females.”

Lorentezen, 2006. The stages through which a divorced person passes is more effective than the act of death. The personal bitter and emotional tensions are another thing but how a society reacts towards divorce is more devastating. In divorced couples especially women, mixed emotions were found including relief to some extent but the hyper tensions like anger, hate, sadness, and the worry about the future were so overrated that their total personality had to change with it. Their part of lives where any part of society plays a role become lemmatized because of the continuous fear of facing social unacceptance.

Meyer, Cathy, 2013. “Divorce always come with the package of black mark with it, closed family members of the divorced people do not want to accept any sort of discomfort which leads into any disgrace or shame caused by divorcing personalities towards them by the people around them. So family pressurized them specially on women to remain in unsuccessful marriage than to get a divorce.”

Qadir,2005. “The current study is investigating the changing perceptions and factors of dissolution of marriage and psychological problems faced by divorced couples and to figure out their social adjustment issues of divorced women.